At the bottom of this page you can see what you will have to do to get a permission for reproducing TDT material. But before you proceed to this, please read the following:

Now The Dart Thrower (TDT as I like to call him short) had his first copyright infringement - actually it is quite possible that it was not the first one but only the first one I got aware of.

Some webmaster from a geocities site published most of the articles on mental aspects - without quoting the source, without linking to TDT, and without asking for what he did. Only through information by Rod Mendez - who runs The Dart Ring and the excellent The Most Complete Collection Of Dart Games On The Web and who also was a victim in this case - did I become aware of this.

Finally the webmaster concerned took the corresponding material off his site when we threatened him with actions and informed geocities of what's going on. He apologized with being very inexperienced on the Internet and not aware of what he was doing. Now we can believe this or not (as I have seen his site I believed at least his inexperience).

So this issue could finally be settled quite easily. But what about possible others in the future, or possible current ones I'm simply unaware of?
 

Although the web gets more and more commercialized each day, it remains a great medium for producing sites like TDT - non-commercial niches formed by people who donate their time (and sometimes even their money for webspace) to make information available. How valuable this information is is not necessary. It is free. It can be bad, it can be good, it can even be great sometimes and better than anything you can buy. But whatever rubbish it may be, it still is and will always remain a human being's property.

People who do such things for free know that they won't receive much more than some "wow that's great" or "you guy suck and that's bullshit" mails for their work, but that's okay for them (speaking for me I recieve a lot of "wow that's great" mails, and this is wonderful!). They don't mind if you don't like their work, but if you like it and use it they are asking you for one thing:

Please take care of it cause we alone can't!

So how can you take care? Simple: Report sightings of other sources to these people's material to them so that they can check if this is an allowed or unallowed reproduction.

For TDT, this means:

• If you spot material taken from The Dart Thrower on the web report this to me: info@dartbase.com. Report how you found it and give me the URL so I can check if it is a theft or if it was published with my permission.
• If you spot the material in a printed magazine, also report this to me. Give the name of the magazine and where you obtained it from. If you detected a theft, I will contact you to give me more information.
• If you meet a person presenting TDT material and pretending it is his or her own intellectual property, confront them and their audience immediately with the source you know and report to me what you have witnessed.

Now, if you are interested in reproducing TDT material on a legal basis, read the following:

I give away permissions to print TDT material in magazines mainly because TDT is designed for darters seeking help, and because not all darters in the world can have Internet access. I don't earn money from TDT, and so I obviously expect no one asking for free permission to earn money with my work. TDT wants to support darts. If I can do this by giving you my articles for your league newsletter, I will.

Printing in magazines:
 

1. You must ask for permission!! It is not allowed to publish the articles because you qualify without asking before! In your mail you should give a short description of who you are, what type of magazine you want permission for and that you have read and accepted and met the terms and conditions given here (especially point 2).
2. Your magazine must run on a non-profit basis or support a non-profit organization. Usually dart leagues are such organizations. I don't need a special proof for this, your word is enough.
3. If you publish material, send me an author's copy of the corresponding magazine issue. You will get my snail mail address along with the permission you have asked for. This is the second most important point! I gave away many permissions until now, but I hardly recieve any magazines! I hope this is not true, but maybe I recieve that few magazines because this is my only proof for point 2...

 

4. Along with the published material quote the source: http://www.xpoint.at/schach/tdt.htm and my name Karlheinz Zöchling (or Zoechling).

 

5. Don't alter the material's content. You may of course correct spelling errors and shorten text carefully if necessary.
6. The permission is valid for all material that was part of TDT at the time the permission was given. You may of course ask again when new material is available.
7. The permission can be withdrawn at any time.

Publishing on the web:

 Publishing on the web is restricted for (hopefully) understandable reasons. You will hardly get permission to publish all articles or documents without certain restrictions for free. However if you are interested, contact me and explain what you have planned to do.

Karlheinz Zöchling, Vienna
Oct 10, 1998